Wiltja

Wiltjas are shelters made by the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and other Aboriginal Australian peoples. Also known as Wurleys, they are temporary dwellings, and are abandoned and rebuilt rather than maintained. Open and semi-circular, wiltjas are meant primarily as a defence against the heat of the sun, and are not an effective shelter from rain.

References

↑ Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal Archived 2010-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Australian National Research Council (1930). Oceania. University of Sydney. p. 288.
↑ Buckley, Ralf (2003). Case Studies in Ecotourism. CABI Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 0-85199-665-5.
↑ American Museum of Natural History (1976). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees. p. 32.

Photographs

Aboriginal people outside a wiltja shelter made of bark and branches c.1914 - State Library of Victoria
Aboriginal bough shelter known as a “wiltja”, at Desert Tracks Pitjantjatjara Tours camp - Alamy

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[1] Australian Indigenous tools and technology - Australia's Culture Portal Archived 2010-04-16 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Australian National Research Council (1930). Oceania. University of Sydney. p. 288.

[3] Buckley, Ralf (2003). Case Studies in Ecotourism. CABI Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 0-85199-665-5.

[4] American Museum of Natural History (1976). Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees. p. 32.

Wiltja

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